The situation had begun to become clear.0

Sisi and her faction were the ones opposing the idea of rebellion, or rather, they did not want to fulfill someone else’s ambition to unify Miaojiang. Their assassination of the pacification commissioner was not an act of rebellion. It was a move to extinguish the excuse others might use to start a rebellion.0

Since the oppressive Great Xia official had been assassinated, it would be hard to justify a rebellion based on that reason.0

Moreover, the assassin was Yue Hongling, another person from Great Xia. What did a Xia person killing another Xia person have to do with them? Even if the imperial court demanded accountability, they could stand aside.0

Under normal circumstances, Sisi’s thinking might have seemed somewhat naive. If the imperial court truly did come to investigate, how could the local tribes possibly not suffer any consequences? But the current situation made it so this normally far-fetched thought was actually fairly realistic.0

With things as they were, the...0